Alex Ariza: "Pacquiao had OVERTRAINED and was DEHYDRATED against Mosley"

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The blinding speed was absent and Ariza shared our opinion that Pacquiao who trained relentlessly for eight weeks never missing a day in the gym had probably over-trained for the fight. Normally, Pacquiao trains a maximum of six or seven weeks which celebrated trainer Freddie Roach has always considered good enough for a fighter of Pacquiao’s caliber.

There were times in training where both Ariza and Roach had to try and hold him back but Pacquiao often had his way going an extra two rounds in sparring or on the punch-mitts.

In a post fight conversation Ariza conceded he too felt that Pacquiao was slower because he had “over-trained a little bit.”

One other factor that worked against Pacquiao and helped Mosley was what was first believed to be cramps that slowed down Pacquiao in his pursuit of the former three-time world champion.

Ariza clarified that “it wasn’t cramps. It was a stiffness in his left front calf” which happened even in his first fight with Juan Manuel Marquez.

The strength and conditioning guru attributed the stiffness to “dehydration” which Ariza blamed on Manny’s “not resting” pointing out that Pacquiao “ran on Thursday which was two days before the fight.”